By David Crystal

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By Peter Mark Roget

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Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education investigates thefactors affecting language maintenance/shift among second-generationAlbanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. Using a combinedquantitative and qualitative methodology, it explores the influence ofthree sets of variables on language maintenance. These are a)ethnolinguistic vitality, defined by the demography, status andinstitutional support of each group in Greece, as well as migrant and Greekpupils’ perceptions regarding these factors; b) migrant parents’ attitudesto language maintenance and their role in language transmission in thehome; and c) the attitudes of teachers and the institutional approaches ofmainstream Greek education to linguistic and cultural diversity. Resultsindicate that: knowledge of Greek is common among today’s children ofAlbanian and Egyptian immigrants and preference for that language isdominant; bilingualism varies slightly between Albanian and Egyptiansecond-generation pupils with Egyptians being more dominant in the parentallanguage, due to their higher degree of identification with their ethnicgroup in comparison to the Albanian pupils; the school context plays asignificant role in the ability of second-generation youths to achieve andmaintain bilingual fluency.